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Colombian teen escapes bus driver 12 years after he allegedly kidnapped and changed her identity

Prosecutors maintain that Carlos Grisales kidnapped the girl when she was 7 years old, in 2012, and took her to a house located in the center of the city of Medellín

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Nicolás Maduro's regime besieges home of María Corina Machado's mother in Caracas

Two patrols of the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service (Sebin) parked in front of the residence of the opposition leader’s mother, Corina Parisca Machado, on two occasions

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United Nations: Every 10 minutes, a female dies at the hands of her partner or family member

In 2023 60% of homicides against women throughout the world, approximately 51,000 killings, were committed by an intimate partner or someone else close to them

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Alert: Cuban doctor kidnapped in Tapachula, Mexico, ransomed for $10,000

ADN spoke with Iván Maceo Silva, a childhood friend of the abducted Cuban doctor and resident in Texas, who explained that the young man was kidnapped on Nov. 5

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Former Bolivian President Evo Morales says his car was fired upon in apparent assassination attempt

Morales has accused his rival, President Luis Arce of orchestrating the assassination attempt, but his government has adamantly denied the charges

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Tren de Aragua criminal gang coordinator arrested in Colombian capital of Bogotá

The criminal gang Tren de Aragua is identified by the Bogotá authorities as one of those responsible for a sharp increase of violence in the city

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Former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo sentenced to 20 years for corruption linked to Odebrecht construction

The verdict marks the first high profile Peruvian conviction related to Brazil’s continent wide Operation Car Wash investigation

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Horror in Mexico: Chilpancingo mayor beheaded days after Sheinbaum vows to continue "hugs, not bullets" policy

The Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), of which the mayor was a member, denounced the “cowardly crime” and called for justice

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Massacre in Haiti: More than 70 dead and 50 injured after attack by armed gang

Several houses and vehicles were burned, forcing survivors to take refuge elsewhere or in the public square of Saint-Marc after walking for hours and stumbling across bodies along the way

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Bolivian AG fires prosecutor who sought arrest warrant for former President Evo Morales on statutory rape charges

On Wednesday night it was learned that there was an arrest warrant against the former president, which was annulled a few hours later